Events around town

SCORING POSITION: Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine with fans at a home game against Cleveland, Fenway Park on May 11
photograph by barry chin/globe staff

Events around town

ALL SMILES: Chris Reif and incoming MIT president Rafael Reif with Gardner Museum director Anne Hawley at the museum’s annual gala in Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on May 12

Photograph by Bill Brett
| June 2, 2012

WARM WELCOME: Governor Deval Patrick greets the Slater Foundation’s Sam Slater and Operation Homefront director Jim Knotts at a party launching a Boston chapter of Homefront, a veterans’ services group, at W Hotel on May 16

photograph by michael blanchard
| June 2, 2012

ART IN THE PARK: Ann Beha of Cambridge and honored guest MFA director Malcolm Rogers at the Emerald Necklace Conservancy’s annual Party in the Park in Boston, Back Bay Fens on May 16

Photograph by bill brett
| June 2, 2012

SCORING POSITION: Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine with fans at a home game against Cleveland, Fenway Park on May 11

photograph by barry chin/globe staff
| June 2, 2012

BROTHERLY WHAT? Ex-“Idol” singer Ayla Brown performs the national anthem — she’s wearing the wrong shirt because she’s singing for Philly this season — before a Celtics-Sixers game
in Philadelphia,Wells Fargo Center on May 16